Skills, Skills, and More Skills
stargrace 
A day for working my skills. That’s what I decided, at least. My tools (minus weapon smithing tools) have all been upgraded to 60ql. My armor was all improved to 40ql, at the moment I’m working weapon smithing and I am hoping that by the end of the day I’ll be able to improve weapons to 60ql.
Then of course I’ll need to raise my mining, again. Ideally I’d like my mining skill to be 10 above what I’m improving items to, but my mining has been raising very slowly. Not a big deal, but a mild annoyance. I believe mining ticks work different than the way everything else works, and I need a worse quality pickaxe to get better skills. I haven’t been able to test this yet so it may not be the issue but that’s the way I’m leaning so far.
Natural substance is a skill that I really want to level up, but it’s also the skill I’ve been neglecting the most (aside from channeling). Sitting at a measly 23.13 my dye making has been put on hold until I find a better way of leveling it up. Making healing covers is fine, but it’s slow and I’m sure there’s a better way.
I’m pleased with the progress I’ve made so far and I’m excited to move down south and start the new deed there. My central deed is lovely, but it’s very small (intentionally) and it’ll be nice to create something on a very large grand scale.
As always, happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!